Operational Readiness

This book offers a guide on how to prepare business and operational environments to safely receive and effectively utilise systems, to prevent successfully completed systems from failing to add value to their intended environment.

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Pascal Bohulu Mabelo has more than 20 years of professional experience and possesses a wide range of technical and managerial skills pertaining to projects. He has previously served as the national chairman of Project Management South Africa (PMSA) and is a regular speaker at Project Management conferences and seminars. He promotes the application of Systems Engineering concepts to unravel complexity in Large Infrastructure Projects.

Inhalt

List of Figures,

List of Tables,

About the Author,

About this Book,

Foreword,

Acronyms,

1 Introduction,

2 Systems, Systems Engineering and Systems Thinking,

3 System Deployment and Impacts on Environment,

4 Necessity of Operational Readiness,

5 Scope of Operational Readiness,

6 Operational Readiness and Project Lifecycle,

7 Focus of Human Capital Readiness,

8 Re-engineering Business Processes,

9 Operational Readiness Implementation,

10 Post-Implementation Review,

11 Conclusion,

12 Practical Operational Readiness Applications,

12.1 Large Infrastructure Projects Putting Empathy into Operations,

12.2 Sustainability Article (Excerpt only),

12.3 Practical Exercise No 1,

12.4 Practical Exercise No 2,

12.5 Practical Exercise No 3,

12.6 Practical Exercise No 4,

Personal Reflections,

References,

Index